Property from an Important Private Collection
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The wedding procession
Auction Closed
January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Brussels 1564 - 1637/8 Antwerp
The wedding procession
signed and dated lower right: P.BREVGHEL.1630
oil on oak panel
panel: 29⅛ by 48 ⅞ in.; 74 by 124 cm.
framed: 38 1/2 by 57 1/2 in💎.; 146.1 by 97.8 cm.
Jules de Pauw, Brussels;
His sale, Brussels, Le Roy, 3 April 1914, lot 6;
With Galerie Brunner, Paris, 1928;
Osborne Kling, Stockholm;
His sale, Lꦡonཧdon, Christie’s, 28 June 1935, lot 13, to Howard for £357;
With Eugene Slatter, London, 1943;
Geoffrey J. Hart, London, by 1956;
With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, by 1969;
From whom acquired&ꦇnbsp;by M. Boissevin, Florence;
By whom sold 𓆉London, Sotheꦚby’s, 12 December 1973, lot 30, for £90,000 to M. de Botton;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 23 June 1982, lot ♏3ꦿ8, for £140,000;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Trust"), New York, Sotheby’s, 26 January 200♚6, lot 9, for $2,704,000;
With Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired by the present owner in 2006.
Apollo 62 (December 1965), p. 179;
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 173, cat. nos. 6,7 and possibly cat. no. 8, reproduced fig. 93 and in color p. 169;[i]
M. Dِíaz Padrón, "La Obra de Pedro Brueghel el Joven en Espana," in Archivo Español de Arte (1980), p. 309;
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Lingen 1988/2000, vol. II, pp. 635, 703, cat. no. E822, reproduced fig. 507.